Including Su Jinrong, everyone scooped up a spoonful of fried rice and tasted it carefully.
After finishing a mouthful of fried rice, Su Jinrong put down the spoon first and gave a rather calm comment: "Too much oil and salt, and you added a little soy sauce, which covered up the original freshness of the fish. The most important thing is that you over-fried the rice.
Fry the rice until each grain is distinct, but don’t over-fry it, as it will become hard and tough.”
Ning Cheng's face instantly fell after receiving such an evaluation.
This feeling of loss was really like trying one's best but failing the exam, which made him lose all his self-confidence in an instant.
After Su Jinrong's evaluation, everyone else put down their spoons and stopped giving any comments.
The kitchen suddenly fell silent, and everyone seemed to not know what to say at this moment
After a while of silence, Shi Jiahui clapped her hands to wake everyone up and said, "Don't be discouraged. This is Ning Cheng's first time making fried rice by himself, so he is still relatively unfamiliar with it. We should all help and teach Ning Cheng, at least to let him understand how to make fried rice."
Su Jinrong looked at Ning Cheng and asked, "You have been helping Xiaolin and Xiaoma for such a long time, have you really never taken a serious look at them?"
Ning Cheng lowered his head. He was very sad and even felt that he was not suitable to be a chef.
Seeing this, Shi Jiahui helped and said, "Uncle Master, don't be anxious. This might be Ning Cheng's first time making fried rice here. He is not familiar with the stoves here and is a little nervous."
Su Jinrong's expression turned serious: "Ning Cheng, raise your head."
When Ning Cheng heard Su Jinrong's serious voice, he quickly raised his head.
Su Jinrong and Ning Cheng looked at each other and said, "Answer my question."
Ning Cheng hesitated for a moment, then said, "Master, I, I did study hard, but I don't know what happened today. I wanted to work hard to do well, but in the end, I didn't do many things well. Instead, I made more mistakes and things got more and more chaotic."
Su Jinrong said, "Okay, let's do this. Don't worry about the ingredients now. Just make me the simplest fried rice."
Hearing this, Ning Cheng was still a little hesitant: "Master, am I not suitable for..."
Before Ning Cheng could finish his words, Su Jinrong stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder.
"Don't think like that. Never think that you can't do it. You have to work hard. Even if it doesn't work this time, don't give up easily. You must firmly believe that through your efforts, you will succeed."
Others also wanted to encourage Ning Cheng.
But when Su Jinrong personally gave encouragement, others suddenly felt that their encouragement was not as good as these two sentences from the old man.
Su Jinrong then said to the others, "The same goes for you. Don't give up easily. Since you chose to come here, chose to run a restaurant with Feng Yifan, and want to establish your own standards together, then you must not give up easily."
Although the old man's legs and feet are not very convenient now, his voice is unusually powerful.
Listening to the old man's words is really deafening.
It was an inspiration to everyone in the restaurant.
Shi Jiahui smiled and said, "Master is still so motivated, so how can we lose to the old man? We have to work hard too, right?"
Everyone responded in unison: “Yes.”
Ning Cheng raised his head and looked at Su Jinrong, then rekindled his fighting spirit: "Okay, Master, I'll try again."
This time, Ning Cheng did not use any other ingredients, but made a fried rice alone.
Ning Cheng used a small wok to make fried rice very carefully and meticulously.
First, pour the egg liquid into the pot and quickly spread it with a spatula.
But this time, after Ning Cheng fried the eggs, Su Jinrong asked Ning Cheng to serve the eggs first.
"Do you know why I asked you to serve the crushed eggs first?"
Ning Cheng shook his head.
Su Jinrong said: "Because, when you fry the eggs together, you may not be able to fry the rice well, and you may not be able to observe the state of the rice, so you should take out the eggs first and fry the rice separately to remove the interference and make it more intuitive.
Okay, let’s start, pour the oil.”
Ning Cheng poured in some oil according to Su Jinrong's instructions.
Su Jinrong started teaching from the step of pouring oil.
"When pouring the oil, you have to be careful not to put too much, but not too little either. It depends on the amount of rice. You see, there is some oil at the bottom of the pot, like this. That's it."
Ning Cheng poured in some oil according to Su Jinrong's instructions, then poured the rice in and stir-fried it.
During the frying process, Ning Cheng knew to use a spatula to flatten the rice, and then fry it as much as possible so that the rice grains could be separated one by one.
Su Jinrong nodded upon seeing this: "Well, it seems like you haven't learned nothing from your master."
Ning Cheng said a little embarrassedly: "Actually, Master has taught me, and my senior brothers have also trained me before, but I was a little nervous, and I forgot about it when I did it myself."
Su Jinrong said: "This is not right. You must remember to write down these processes carefully and follow these steps."
Ning Cheng nodded in agreement.
He fried the rice seriously.
Continue frying until the rice grains are distinct and each grain becomes crystal clear.
Su Jinrong immediately said, "Okay, now pour the crushed eggs in and start frying."
Ning Cheng immediately did as he was told, poured the chopped eggs into the pan and began to stir-fry them quickly.
Su Jinrong watched carefully, and after stir-frying the chopped eggs until they were heated up again, he asked Ning Cheng to add the chopped green onions and some salt for seasoning.
When adding salt for seasoning, Su Jinrong said: "If you are not sure how much salt to add, you can use a separate small spoon to scoop out a little from the side of the pot after the salt is evenly mixed, and taste it yourself. Remember, you have to eat the scooped part yourself and cannot put it back into the pot."
Ning Cheng did as he was told and scooped out a little bit with a clean spoon to taste it.
After determining the taste, Ning Cheng also added some seasoning.
Finally, this very simple egg fried rice is ready.
Before serving, Su Jinrong asked Ning Cheng to sprinkle some chopped green onions on top again, and stir-fry the green onions with the residual heat from the pot.
After the frying was done, Su Jinrong said, "Look, isn't this good? You have to remember this process, understand?"
Ning Cheng nodded quickly: "I understand, Master."
Afterwards, Su Jinrong invited everyone to come and taste the food.
After taking a bite, everyone was quite satisfied with the taste this time.
Luo Yu even gave a thumbs up and said, "Great, I didn't expect your fried rice to be so good, Ning Cheng."
Ning Cheng was a little embarrassed to be praised: "Thank you, actually it was Master who taught me well."
Su Jinrong shook his head: "This has nothing to do with what I taught you. In fact, your master should have taught you all these, but you were too nervous, so you forgot a lot of things. I just reminded you."
Ning Cheng nodded and said, "Yes, Master and Senior Brother did teach me."
"So you have to get used to it and understand that you need to be able to do this anywhere, not just in a familiar place," Su said.
Ning Cheng nodded in understanding.
Su Jinrong continued, "Okay, you've finished making the egg fried rice. Now take those ingredients and start experimenting."
Ning Cheng did not delay and immediately began to prepare.
This time, Ning Cheng was obviously more familiar with it.
In fact, the overall steps are not much different. The only difference is that you need to fry some ingredients before making fried rice.
When seasoning the ingredients, Ning Cheng knew to use a clean spoon to taste the flavor without Su Jinrong reminding him this time.
Then adjust according to taste and rinse the small spoon used for tasting.
After reading it, Su Jinrong reminded him, "Although the ingredients are flavored, you still need to taste it again when you fry the rice and make some adjustments to the flavor. It's better to have a lighter flavor at the beginning and add more flavor later, but don't make it too strong."
Ning Cheng responded, "Okay, Master."
This time, all the steps were very safe.
And Ning Cheng finally tried the flavor.
Some adjustments were also made before serving to ensure that the taste was fine.
Sure enough, this attempt was successful and the fried rice tasted delicious.
And the various ingredients in the fried rice are also very tasty.
After eating, Hans and Tom gave Ning Cheng a thumbs up.
Chen Xu said: "Great, this tastes delicious."
Luo Yu also said: "Yes, it's really delicious."
Shi Jiahui said: "Well, this fried rice is delicious when eaten directly, but you can also add some fish soup to make a stew, which I think will also be delicious."
Catherine said: "You can also bake rice."
With Shi Jiahui and Catherine's ideas, everyone also taught Ning Cheng other methods.
Ning Cheng also learned a lot here.
After the rice was ready, some stewed noodles were made.
In the end, Ning Cheng managed to prepare a few employee meals that everyone was quite satisfied with.
Su Jinrong said, "Okay, Ning Cheng, bring these over and let your master and the others have a taste to see if your master is satisfied."
Ning Cheng still felt a little worried after hearing this.
Su Jinrong smiled and said, "Your master must have a taste. Let's go together."
Shi Jiahui also encouraged, "Yes, let's go together. Maybe Ruoruo and the others are here, and it's almost time for dinner. Let's send them some food together."
Catherine said, "Let's stay here and eat. We need to continue practicing after we eat."
Hans and Tom naturally agreed to Catherine's arrangement.
Chen Xu and Luo Yu discussed it and decided to stay and practice.
Ning Cheng was encouraged by the fact that Chen Xu, Luo Yu and Catherine were so serious. He picked up two plates and went to the next room with Su Jinrong and Shi Jiahui to deliver the food.
On this side, Feng Yifan had already dealt with Gao Feng's group of guests.
Then he handed over the Lin's shop to his two apprentices, and he walked out of the kitchen and went upstairs to see the little girls.
Feng Ruoruo saw her father coming upstairs and quickly raised the towel she had prepared and handed it to him: "Dad, wipe your sweat."
Yang Xiaoxi picked up the prepared tea and followed him: "Dad Feng, drink some water."
Chen Yaofei also waved the fan in her hand and said, "Father Feng, let me fan you."
Feng Yifan was a little surprised to see the three little girls so enthusiastic, but at the same time he felt very happy.
"Yeah, that's great. Thank you Ruoruo, thank you Xixi, and thank you Feifei."
The three little girls were very happy and responded in unison: "You're welcome."
Feng Yifan sat down, drank some water, asked his daughter to wipe her sweat, and enjoyed being fanned by Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei.
Su Ruoxi saw her husband enjoying himself and said with a smile, "Don't just enjoy yourself, we haven't even eaten yet."
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Don't worry, Ning Cheng has already done it."
Everyone was a little surprised.
Lu Cuiling asked first: "Why did you let Ning Cheng cook?"
Feng Jiandong said: "Ning Cheng has been learning for so long, asking him to cook a meal for everyone can be considered a test for him. Otherwise, if he never cooks, won't he never make any progress?"
Chen Shoulin also said: "Yes, Grandpa Ruoruo is right, Ning Cheng really needs to practice."
Feng Yifan said: "This is a test for him to see if he really pays attention and learns from Ruifeng and Xiaolong all day long."
Yang Zhiyi asked curiously: "What if it's not done well?"
Feng Yifan laughed: "Not doing well? Then I might have to let him pack up and go home."
As he was speaking, there was the sound of a door opening downstairs.
Then Shi Jiahui shouted: "Someone come, help us."
Feng Yifan walked out of the room on the second floor and saw people coming back with food. He turned around and said to everyone, "Okay, dinner is here."
Feng Ruoruo, Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei quickly followed Feng's father and rushed out.
The others followed him downstairs one after another.
When I came downstairs, I saw Shi Jiahui and Ning Cheng coming in with fried rice, stewed rice, baked rice, stewed noodles, baked noodles and fried noodles.
Feng Yifan looked at the various things on the tray, smiled and said, "Not bad, there are many varieties."
Shi Jiahui smiled and said, "Of course, your disciple has worked very hard."
Feng Yifan looked at Ning Cheng and could clearly see that Ning Cheng was not very confident.
Feng Ruoruo, Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei also came over at this time, and the three little girls looked at Ning Cheng together.
"Uncle Xiaoning, did you make all of these? That's great!"
Because Ning Cheng is with Lin Ruifeng and Ma Xiaolong all day long, the three little girls now call him "Uncle Xiao Ning". In the words of the little girls, this is the same as "Uncle Xiao Lin" and "Uncle Xiao Ma".
Ning Cheng was a little uncomfortable at first, but after being called by the little girls for many days, he had no choice but to accept it.
Yang Xiaoxi followed up and said, "Uncle Xiaoning, you are amazing. You can do so much."
Chen Yaofei also said: "Yes, Uncle Xiaoning, you are really amazing."
Ning Cheng gradually gained confidence after being praised by the three little girls. Thinking of what Su Jinrong and Shi Jiahui had told him, that he had to pass the test of the master, he also plucked up the courage.
"Master, I'm done, please judge."
Feng Yifan smiled when he saw this: "Not bad, it's good to be confident. Let's all try it together."
Feng Yifan and Yang Zhiyi moved a wooden table and placed it in the backyard of the Lin family shop, and everyone began to taste the dinner that Ning Cheng had prepared for everyone tonight.